100 Bible Verses About Resisting Evil

And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.

And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.

Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?

The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the Lord:

Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.

And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.